[mythtv-users] "mpeg2enc is currently broken"

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, catfish wrote:
> > I got the same error this evening. I downgraded to the older version from
> > atrpms, and it seems to work again.
> >
> > mjpegtools-1.9.1-14_cvs20061009.el4.at.i386.rpm
> 
> (fc6, x86, atrpms)
> What are the steps to downgrade this package? Seems yum doesn't support 
> downgrading packages directly and attempting to just yumdownloader 
> mjpegtools-1.9.1-14_cvs20061009.fc6.at then install with rpm -ihv 
> reports conflicts with the newer broken package.

Only use -ihv with kernels, e.g. use -Uhv for everything else. And you
need --oldpackage, too, otherwise rpm will refuse to "upgrade"
backwards, e.g.

rpm -Uhv --oldpackage mjpegtools*rpm

I'll add this to http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1204
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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